“If your Christmas spirit is on a par with Trump’s, you need to take a long hard look at yourself!”...
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Do not mistake your student loan for a grant Sheepishly, I admit this is exactly what I did and, in...
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Most of us will be pretty tired of spending by now. Even the hardiest of shoppers will have retail fatigue...
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Picking up a new language is a skill that most English speakers sadly pass up during their formative years of...
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Confession: I made a public stand against regifting – but I didn’t quite tell the whole story
“If your Christmas spirit is on a par with Trump’s, you need to take a long hard look at yourself!” I declare on BBC Essex. I’ve been invited on to talk about regifting, after a revelation by Donald Trump Jr. that his father once regifted him the Christmas present he’d given him the year before.…
Financial lessons for a younger me
Do not mistake your student loan for a grant Sheepishly, I admit this is exactly what I did and, in my first few weeks of university, I was spending about £180 a week until a new friend said to me “you do know we’ll have to pay this back”? I foolishly thought I was living…
Want to cut the cost of Christmas 2019? Start shopping now…
Most of us will be pretty tired of spending by now. Even the hardiest of shoppers will have retail fatigue after the festive period. A study from American Express estimated that each of us spent just over £1,200 over Christmas on everything from nights out, presents and food and wine. That’s quite a bill. If you…
Learning a new language can take dogged determination – but it will pay off
Picking up a new language is a skill that most English speakers sadly pass up during their formative years of education. Like a lot of school-related work it can seem arduous and somewhat pointless. When the rest of the world can already speak English – why bother? However, aside from being a useful way to…
10 New Year’s financial resolutions we can all make
It’s a new year, and there’s no better time to make a new set of resolutions to see you through 2019. Each of us have our own individual resolutions, from being healthier to travelling more, but there is one resolution we can all share – getting our finances into shape. Now is the perfect month…
This might sound weird but…start saving for Christmas 2019 now!
Have you dared to look at your Christmas spending yet? Has the credit card bill come in yet, so you can face what Christmas cost you? I have faced mine and it’s scary. This year I am starting to save for Christmas right now. I have a credit card that I pay off in full…
Embracing lagom – the biggest Scandi trend since hygge
Forget hygge, ignore ikigai – 2019 is all about lagom (yay, another Scandinavian word we can’t pronounce). Roughly translating as ‘not too much, not too little, just right’, lagom is the art of living frugally, which is a pretty essential life skill if, like me, you’ve still got a £9,000 student loan to repay. Lagom…
If you make one New Year’s resolution – promise yourself you will start saving
It’s that’s time of year when everyone is thinking about their New Year’s resolutions. If there’s one resolution that you should make – it’s to start saving. A recent study found that 30% of adults have less than £300 in savings and wouldn’t be able to pay their next month’s rent or mortgage if they…
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January is a bad month to become a healthier you – here’s why
It’s January again, the month of food angst, apathy, and opportunism. We’re carrying more weight than we’d like. Dark days and seasonal illness make us sluggish. Dreaded tax returns and bills beckon. And this miscellany of midwinter delights is underpinned by an all too familiar new year reality: January is a very long month, and…
